A Great Movie

Ben and I watched a great movie last night, it was called Fireproof and starred Kirk Cameron (who is still so cute and doesn't look any older than when he played Mike!). I would encourage you to check it out, I think it was definitely worth a couple of hours of my time and gives a great message that we could all stand to hear!

What the Mess?!

When you buy a brand, new, never been lived in house, you have certain expectations; like that the main sewer line will not be plugged and back up into your house! We had a horrible experience with our house that luckily had a good ending. On the tuesday that my parents left and Ben flew out for Texas, the downstairs toilet backed up. Luckily I had just put the kids to bed and we have a wet/dry vac so I was able to clean it up pretty quickly. I put the plunger to the toilet and got nothing but figured hey, I'm probably okay...famous last words! Two day later as I'm trying to feed two crying babies their dinner, it happened again. I gave the kids a couple of crackers and did what I could to at least stem the tide until I could really dig into it. I got that mess cleaned up but boy did it stink! So we called on the home warranty, they set it up to send someone out but before that happened it did it again so we called the emergency plumber and he said, Sorry can't help you, got to get Roto Rooter out. We did that, thought the problem was taken care of when it happened again! The building super. for our subdivision came overand said they would take care of everything and here is what happened:

They dug up the driveway to get to the main sewer pipe and ended up having to put a camera down it where they determined that somehow some cement had gotten down there and sealed it off so it had nowhere to go but back into the house. What the mess...anyways, the problem is now fixed at no expense to us (except mental stress and backed up laundry and dishes). We know that it was just a weird freak of nature but what a frustration, we are hoping it will be smooth sailing from here!

Our Valentine's Day (Wahoo Yahtzee)

For Valentine's day this year we went out the night before and had a wonderful relaxing dinner at the Cottonwood Grille in Boise while Ben's sister watched the kids. It was nice to get away for awhile with just the two of us and to be able to enjoy our food. On Vday we went to the mall and then cooked dinner and played Yahtzee. I had my best game ever!! I won 3 out of 6 games and had two double Yahtzees! I have never even had one before. I am posting my scorecard so you can see how great I did (just ignore the last 3 games) ;D

The Beginning of the End

So after many false starts and cruising around, Anthony has decided that walking is kind of fun. Yes, he has taken more than just a couple of steps and can now walk several feet at a time. We really thought he would be walking by Christmas but he decided he wanted to take his time (which is just fine with me). Emily shows no interest in walking and hasn't really taken any steps yet but I don't think it will be long and she will want to do what brother is doing (and Heaven help us then).

We're In!

Hallelujah, we are in our new house!! We had every intention of using the last month to move stuff over but didn't get much done until last week and then last Saturday with help from my parents and the Elder's Quorum we made the big move and brought all the furniture over. I'm sure the guys that were here helping were wishing they had skipped helping us because we had lots of heavy furniture that had to be taken up stairs. We didn't have any accidents though and no one has called us to tell us about their broken backs so I guess it's all good. The kids are loving the house, we have their toys upstairs in the loft area and they can play to their heart's content. It will be nice when we get blinds in but we are really enjoying being in our own place again. My SIL Shauna came from Texas to help get us settled and decorate the place (because she's fabulous ;D) and it has been so great visiting with her and having my house look nice. If anyone ever wants to come visit, say the word and we would love to have you!

I was just reading a blog belonging to a friend of a friend (you know how it is) and they just lost their 2 1/2 year old daughter (a twin) to cancer and I just started bawling. It really just breaks my heart to read those stories and think how blessed I have been that so far neither of my sweet babies has had problems. I feel guilty for the times that I get frustrated because I don't get to do what I want or need to do. I thank my Heavenly Father for these beautiful children he sent me and for the wonderful health that they have had, I only hope we never have to deal with any problems because I don't know if I am strong enough to do it.

Moving Sucks!!

Can I just tell you I hate moving! I feel like we are always doing it even though it's actually been about every 2 years. We are in the process right now of moving, we have been loading up the car every day and taking "stuff" over and this weekend we have a moving truck rented to take the furniture and big stuff over. I haven't been doing a lot of actual packing, just kind of throwing stuff into a box and over it goes, should be interesting when I get to the unpacking part. The only salvation I can see is that this is it...our last move. I know, you're laughing at me because of our track record but I told Ben the only other place I'm moving to is the nursing home. I'll probably have to eat my words but we'll see. Everyone at church is like, well, at least you can get rid of things as you're going but seeing how we just did this a year ago about the only stuff we've acquired is the baby's stuff so not much to get rid of. Alright, just had to vent that out and now I can get back to the process of worrying about not having stuff packed but not packing it either!!!